LUOSHUI TOWN, China (AP) — Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from th » Full Story

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s junta warned Thursday it will punish anyone found hoarding or trading foreign aid meant for cyclone survivors, but relief groups said they had seen no evidence of peop » Full Story

IJEGUN, Nigeria (AP) — A road-grader accidentally tore open a fuel pipeline Thursday and sent an inferno raging over houses and a school, setting off a stampede of terrified children and killing about » Full Story

NEW YORK (AP) — Terror leader Osama bin Laden will release a new Internet message dealing with Israel and the Palestinians, a terrorism monitoring group said Thursday.

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BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. and Iraqi troops moved against al-Qaida on two separate fronts Thursday, with house-to-house searches in Mosul and an operation in the desert to stanch the flow of insurgents and w » Full Story

PARIS (AP) — Teachers, postal workers and other public servants staged a one-day strike and tens of thousands marched through French cities Thursday, a widespread protest against President Nicolas Sar » Full Story

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The Hezbollah-led opposition and U.S.-backed government reached a deal Thursday to end Lebanon’s worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war, now that the Cabinet has reversed me » Full Story

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world economy is ‘‘teetering on the brink’’ of a severe downturn and is expected to grow only 1.8 percent in 2008, the United Nations said in its mid-year economic projection » Full Story

LEGUTIANO, Spain (AP) _ Suspected Basque separatists bombed a village police barracks housing officers and their families on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding four. Spain's government describ » Full Story

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) _ The U.S.-backed Cabinet on Wednesday reversed measures against the militant Hezbollah movement that set off Lebanon's worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war.



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